{"id":7,"date":"2011-02-13T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-13T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:32:13","slug":"al_jazari_s_first_automata_driven_by_wat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/2011\/02\/13\/al_jazari_s_first_automata_driven_by_wat\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Jazari&#8217;s first automata driven by water energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is quite interesting to see how an ancient Iraqi polymath Al-Jazari used the nergy of falling water to drive various mechanisms such as camshafts, clocks, and musical robot bands. He was a pioneer of automation, and invented auomatic gates, water clocks, muscial automata. His mechanisms and ideas look analogous to what we now want to achieve in driving computations by electrical power &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al-Jazari#Water-raising_machines<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camshaft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is quite interesting to see how an ancient Iraqi polymath Al-Jazari used the nergy of falling water to drive various mechanisms such as camshafts, clocks, and musical robot bands. He was a pioneer of automation, and invented auomatic gates, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/2011\/02\/13\/al_jazari_s_first_automata_driven_by_wat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energetic-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}